The IPA Francophone West Africa team organized a seminar at the University of Ouagadougou.Some 40 attendants actively participated to the meeting and speakers were challenged with interesting questions.Research Associate Alassane Koulibaly moderated the seminar with great professionalism.Senior Research Associate Estelle Plat presented preliminary results from the Sorghum Tech Adoption study, Country Director Nicoló Tomaselli presented results from the Agricultural Lending study in Mali and Adrien Pawlik discussed baseline data collected for the Ouaga Sanitation experiment.

On Thursday July 30, CESED at Los Andes University, IPA Colombia and J-PAL LAC, will co-organize the conference “Public Policy in Post-Conflict: In the search for effective solutions” in Bogotá, Colombia.   The event will gather policymakers, researchers and civil society to discuss proven interventions in contexts of conflict and post-conflict and how lessons from these experiences can be incorporated into policy.   The conference will be divided in three thematic panels.   The first panel will focus on evaluation results of interventions in the labor sector, crime and illicit crops eradication relevant to the Colombian context.

IPA Philippines hosted a two day training workshop on Impact Evaluation with the Department of Education from July 28 to 29, 2015.The training workshop was attended by various divisions under the Department of Education and Education partner organizations such as the Early Childhood Care and Development Council, Technical Institute for Women in Cebu, Dynamic Teen Corporation and Porticus Asia.Prathap Kasina, Maya Escueta (JPAL SA), Dr.